L.A. County Sheriff’s Deputy Yen Liu will not face criminal charges in the 2021 shooting of Adrian Abelar, who had just discarded a weapon and was prone on the ground when the deputy fired a single bullet into his back.

A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy who shot a man in the back in 2021 will not face criminal charges, according to records made public by the district attorney’s office late last month.

Los Angeles County prosecutors found there was “insufficient evidence” to prove Deputy Yen Liu was not acting in lawful self-defense when he shot Adrian Abelar at a Rosemead auto body shop four years ago, firing a round that fractured several vertebrae and nearly paralyzed him, according to court records and Abelar’s attorney.

Abelar, 29, had just thrown a gun from the car and was face

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